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Watch Rick Astley cover Charli XCX with Blossoms

Connor Gotto by Connor Gotto
October 17, 2024
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Rick Astley joined Blossoms in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge for a cover of Charli XCX‘s ‘Brat’ single 360.

The Never Gonna Give You Up hitmaker made a surprise appearance alongside the group – starring Tom Ogden, Charlie Salt, Josh Dewhurst, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock – as they delivered a guitar-led take on the track.

Astley also joined in with an interpolation of Stardust’s 1998 hit Music Sounds Better With You, while Blossoms performed their track Perfect Me.

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“We’ve been in love with the record. Obviously, everyone knows that it’s been a ‘Brat’ summer, hasn’t it?” said frontman Ogden of their Charli XCX cover. “We love it the same way everyone else has and this tune I just think is a great pop record.”

Watch Blossoms and Rick Astley perform 360 below.

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